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Moggy vs Mouser - What's the difference?

moggy | mouser |

As nouns the difference between moggy and mouser

is that moggy is a domestic non-pedigree (mongrel) cat while mouser is a cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose.

moggy

English

Alternative forms

* moggie

Noun

(wikipedia moggy) (moggies)
  • (chiefly, British, slang) a domestic non-pedigree (mongrel) cat
  • (UK) the moorhen

    • Coordinate terms

    * mutt

    Hypernyms

    * mongrel

    References

    mouser

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose.
  • (chiefly, Scotland, US) A moustache.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 20:
  • *:He was a pretty man, well upstanding, with great shoulders on him and his hair was fair and fine and he had a broad brow and a gey bit coulter of a nose and he twisted his mouser ends up with wax like that creature the German Kaiser […].

    • Related terms

    * Chief Mouser * Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office - the official resident cat at